Sillies and Smiles - Random Style

1. Fifi has itty, bitty ears. Dumpling is more well-endowed. I sometimes joke to Husband privately that Fifi left some of her lobes in my womb and Dumpling picked them up on her way out. Fifi can wiggle her ears. I asked her to do it for me at dinner tonight, and then asked Dumpling if she could do it. She carefully swept her hair behind her ears, but found that she couldn't. Fifi mumbled under her breath, "that's because they're too heavy." Ha ha ha ha! And no, Dumpling didn't hear her. (And no, Fifi meant no malice.)
   
2. Dumpling's prayers in the evening sometimes sound more like a memory verse, but the other night she asked God to please tell her why the little stuffed puppy at the bookstore cost $6 a couple of months ago, but now costs $8?! Poor baby. She's going to have to save up her "pieces or money" for awhile longer.
3. Dumpling and Cuddlebug were playing "washer women" outside in the heat of the day -- little ponytails bobbing, knocking on the back door for ice water every so often. When I saw that they were washing their figurine horses in a small tub on the dirt, rather than the lawn, I stepped out and asked, "Why? Why not do that on a patch of grass?" Dumpling explained that this way the horses had a river! What a mess!
   
4. The other morning, we were reading in our science curriculum about light and color. When we tried to understand about objects absorbing the colors of the rainbow except the hue we perceive, we talked about the grass, "So then the grass you see as..." Dumpling interjected, "Yellow?!" Yes, the drought in South Texas is so bad that my 6 year old doesn't know that grass is supposed to be green.
   
5. Yesterday at Costco, Dumpling was carrying a small bright green piece of silly putty in the palm of her hand. It was about 1 inch long, very thin with a kind of bulb at one end. It was so small that I wondered if she was maybe waiting to come across a trash can in which to toss it. It looked like it could have been mistaken for, well...something gross, so I asked her, "What is that?" Fifi spoke up, "That. Is her rattlesnake." Oh. Okay then.
   
6. This week's lunchtime read-aloud has been The Cricket In Time Square. On Thursday, we came across a mention of the Blue Danube Waltz and I apologized for not knowing the tune off the top of my head. And then Fifi began to sing it! I was amazed. "How do you know that?" She replied with what has become a fairly common answer around here, "From Daddy's Classic Looney Tunes DVDs." *big grin* She's lobbying for it to be our educational curriculum, and it probably could be -- but that's another post for another day.